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“If Google digitizes the world’s books, how will it keep track of what you read?

“That’s one of the unanswered questions that librarians and privacy experts are grappling with as Google attempts to settle a long-running lawsuit by publishers and copyright holders and move ahead with its effort to digitize millions of books, known as the Google Books Library Project.”

Is it important that computers and robots tell us the truth? Or should they learn to lie – like their human makers?

In an experiment performed in a Swiss laboratory, 10 robots with downward-facing sensors competed for “food” – a light-colored ring on the floor. At the other end of the space, a darker ring – “poison” – was placed. The robots earned points for how much time they spent near food as opposed to poison.

The experimenters, engineers Sara Mitri and Dario Floreano and evolutionary biologist Laurent Keller, also gave the robots the ability to talk with each other. Each robot can produce a blue light that can be seen by the others and which can give away the position of the “food” ring. Over time, the robots evolved to deceive each other about the food ring.

“Investigators looking into steroid use by professional baseball players obtained search warrants and subpoenas for the drug tests [database] results on 10 major league players, but they took the results on 104 players.”